Leo ... (or anyone in the know), I have read multiple posts advising users to turn on or off hardware acceleration depending on the problem. For example ... "Thus the catch 22, on Opera some problems go away when you disable it...and vice versa.".

But I'm sure there was no problem with that in previous Opera version. I didn't notice that using earlier Opera, there was no problem with that All starting to mess with latest version, which in my opinion broke more than improve.